No chance of Suarez joining Spurs or Arsenal

I'm afraid whatever fan wrote the latest Sports Witness piece about Denis Suarez hasn't a clue what he's talking about.

This is no proposal for Denis Suarez to be bought back by Barcelona and them immediately sold to either London club, Tottenham Hotspur or Arsenal. Such talk is simply imaginative thinking given this has been mooted for Alvaro Morata with Real Madrid using a buy-back option from Juventus and selling to Arsenal.

Barcelona have been quite clear the whole of this year, they are going to exercise their buy-back option because they want him at Barcelona, not to sell on somewhere else. Tottenham and Arsenal can make all the proposals they like, the player has said he wants to return to Barcelona, the club want him, end of matter.

If we can convince him not to go to Barcelona and join us instead great, but why would he? The Barcelona team is not filled with youth, captain Andrés Iniesta is 32 and they need the next generation coming through, that means players like Suarez. They need time to look at players in their colours and decide if they are a long-term Barcelona player or not. It is rumoured that they will let Arda Turan go having only signed him last summer. Alex Song didn't make it at Barcelona, not every player fits into the system they play.

I think there is little or no chance of Suarez joining either Tottenham or Arsenal. It's the only logical conclusion from the facts available.